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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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